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    Germania Superior ("Upper Germania") was an imperial province of the Roman Empire. It comprised an area of today's western Switzerland, the French Jura...
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    (English: Free Germania), or Germanic Barbaricum to distinguish it from the Roman provinces of Germania Inferior and Germania Superior, was a historical...
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    Germania Inferior ("Lower Germania") was a Roman province from AD 85 until the province was renamed Germania Secunda in the 4th century AD, on the west...
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    Primigenia was first stationed in Mogontiacum in the Roman province of Germania Superior, guarding the Rhine border as part of the limes. Along with the rest...
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    praetor, consul, and governor to the provinces of Gallia Aquitania, Germania Superior, and Africa during the first half of the first century AD. He retired...
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  • culture Germania Antiqua, an abandoned province of the Roman Empire in Europe Germania Superior, a province of the Roman Empire in Europe Germania Inferior...
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    Limes), forming the border between the Roman provinces of Germania Inferior and Germania Superior. By contrast with the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes, it...
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    devoted to Nero, which led Lucius Verginius Rufus, the governor of Germania Superior, to march on Vindex. He besieged Vesontio, capital of the Sequani...
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    Alsace was inhabited by nomadic hunters. Part of the province of Germania Superior in the Roman Empire, the area went on to become a diffuse border region...
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    into either Germania Inferior or Germania Superior in AD 85. In Tacitus, Germania Antiqua or Germania Barbara, are synonyms of Germania Transrhenana...
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  • Gallia Lugdunensis, Gallia Belgica, Germania Superior and Inferior, and parts of the previously unconquered Germania Magna. Additionally, minor Germanic...
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    governors of Gaul List of Roman governors of Germania Inferior List of Roman governors of Germania Superior List of Roman governors of Macedonia List of...
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    time in AD 12. The year after, he was made proconsul of Germania Inferior, Germania Superior, and all of Gaul. From there he commanded eight legions,...
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  • is because a regiment of that name is repeatedly attested both in Germania Superior and Britannia. Holder sees them as two separate units, one of which...
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    Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (category Germania)
    conquest of Germania, and so can be considered one of the most important events in European history. The provinces of Germania Superior and Germania Inferior...
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    Argentoratum (category Roman fortifications in Germania Superior)
    Nero Claudius Drusus established a military outpost belonging to the Germania Superior Roman province close to a Gaulish village near the banks of the Rhine...
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    Germania Superior ALAE XXX COHORTES COHORTES Gallorum Indiana I Scubulorum I Aquitanorum veterana III Aquitanorum eq c.R. IV Aquitanorum eq c.R. I Asturum...
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    Hadrian's Wall. The Vangiones of Germania Superior held their position as a bulwark of civilized might as long as Germania Superior existed. Under the Roman Republic...
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    Stuttgart (category Germania Superior)
    Vindelicorum (Augsburg). Cannstatt was a part of the Roman imperial province Germania Superior. As with many military installations, a settlement sprang up nearby...
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    Roman province of Gallia Belgica[citation needed] (22 BC), later into Germania Superior (AD 83). The Helvetians, like the rest of Gaul, were largely Romanized...
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    Mainz (category Roman fortifications in Germania Superior)
    the Roman Empire, and became the capital of the Roman province of Germania Superior. The city was settled by the Franks from 459 on, and in the 8th century...
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  • is unclear whether by legatus this Acilius Strabo was governor of Germania Superior, or possibly the commander of a legion stationed in the province;...
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    Tarraconensis, Servius Sulpicius Galba. The commander of the army from Germania Superior, governor Lucius Verginius Rufus, advanced against him. The battle...
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    centurion of Legio VIII Augusta dedicated an altar in 191 at Obernburg in Germania Superior (CIL XIII, 6646). A large number of dedications then occur under Septimius...
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  • southern part of Germany. The term is first found in medieval Latin as Germania Superior, for example in chapter 23 of the Imago mundi of Honorius Augustodunensis...
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    Trajan (category Roman governors of Germania Superior)
    an attempted coup by Lucius Antonius Saturninus, the governor of Germania Superior. Trajan probably remained in the region after the revolt was quashed...
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    Besançon (category Germania Superior)
    Besançon (UK: /ˈbɛzənsɒn/, US: /bəˈzænsən/, French: [bəzɑ̃sɔ̃] , Franco-Provençal: [bəzɑ̃ˈsɔ̃]; archaic German: Bisanz; Latin: Vesontio) is the prefecture...
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    Roman provinces of downstream Germania Inferior (nowadays part of Belgium and the Netherlands) and upstream Germania Superior. Thus, in the case of the Low...
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  • at Corinum (Cirencester). In 98 it is recorded in Germania Inferior, and in 134 in Germania Superior. The only mention of this ala in Britain is the tombstone...
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    Moguntiacum (Mainz). The two original military districts of Germania Inferior and Germania Superior, came to influence the surrounding tribes, who later respected...
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